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A POEM 
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CHARLES HATCH SMITH, M.A. 







" Tf ever two rival kings their right debate, 
And factions and cabals embroil the State, 
The people's actions will their thoughts declare." 

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TO 
THE kt ILLUSTRIOUS MEN" WHO FOUNDED, 

AND THEIR " SUCCESSORS," WHO, AMIDST 

" Jarring principles that ascendancy contend,' 1 

Shall maintain 

THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, 

This Poem, "Libertas," is inscribed and dedicated. 

THE AUTHOR. 



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PREFACE. 



A nurse the *Angeli love 

Is Truth, their mother Above. 
Picturing heaven alone, 

Saints, and most Sages, own 
Her prestige when at the door 

That leads to friends gone before. 
Wise and good people have said 

The Circean-cup has ledf 
On errant Knights of the Pen, 

Often again and again, 
To make of neat-looking pages 

A nettle to sting for Ages ; 
A jack o'lantern of evil 

To lure recruits for the d — 1 ; 
A subtile-told tale to lie 

Through Time and Eternity. 

* Vide Note xxiv a. \ Vide Note xxvi, b. 



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PREFACE. 

From his hyperbolist head 

A friend, advisory, said: 
"For wheat that is reaped and ground, 

Market is easily found." 

A super-excellent fact 
To one with a grain contract. 

To fill the storehouse of thought, 
Sparse are the crops yearly brought 

Of quality worth the flail, 
Sure of a prodigious sale, 

Wherein investments will give 
Profits, by which merchants live. 

One meets with some who pretend 
Cash is the cardinal end 

Sought for by publishing books. 
With cerberic tact, it looks* 

At an author's purse, to stock it, 
And guards his publisher's pocket. 

No one can tell what is lost 
*Vide Note xxiv, c. 



PREFACE. 

In books that never pay cost, 

For Science gathers some sway 
From books not written to pay ; 

Besides, it is proved, at length, 
That forage which gives mind strength, 

For scholiastics better, 
Is finely wrought belles-lettres. 

Though the mass of buyers run 
To stores after books of fun ; 

Or, those of a lighter kind, 
Effervescence for the mind ; 

And all the good people may 
Who bear the heat of the day ; 

It is not evil to quaff 
From books, a genuine laugh. 

But a horrible *faci- 
Lis descensus Averni 

Printing a book is, know I. 

Advise, did a friend, wisely, 

Sed revocare gradum\ — 
* t Vide Note page 8. 



8 PREFACP^ 

Easy the swallowing ruin ! 

Give again health to the breast — 
Hoc opus, hie labor est ?\ 

Not he ! Most sapient friend ! 
Wish he had ! Why ? For what end ? 

Because then never a rhyme 
To take up any one's time 

Certainly precious to all, 
Would have been written to call 

Laud, or rebuke, pro or con / 
Other tasks should have gone on ; 

Better to dig every day 
For somebody sure to pay. 

But a " still small voice within" 
Whispers, u The song may begin ! 

Start it upon a career ! 
Fealty to Truth is clear." 

*The descent to h — 1 is easy ; fbut, to retrace the 
steps, :fthis is the work, this the labor. Virgil's ALnead 
lib vi, 126. 



PREFACE. 

It would be folly to caie 
Whether guests praise up the fare 

If a pure conscience may see 
Quite plainly, the poesy, 

Though homemade viands are fed, 
Is a healthful banquet spread ; 

To show that very great wars 
Bjgin in frivolous jars ; 

When liberty fights for power, 
Watching the gathering shower 

To reef the "Old Ship of State" 
That she float dispelling hate ; 

When fearful tempests sweep past, 
Helping her weather the blast 

To ride in safetv the o;ale, 
Once more to carry all sail ; 

Discovering rocks and shoals 
Over which life's ocean rolls; 

Allying her crew with Heaven 
Whence nothing but good is given ; 



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10 PREFACE. 

Aiding a Nation to prove 
Legal its title to love ; 

Exhaling heart to drive back 
Over its scarlet-stained track 

Horridum Bellum* a wave 
Red with the blood of the brave. 

So hyperbolical friend 
Gets a real thank ye. To end 

Prefaistic discussion 
Let work at rhyming rush on 

Gathering truth for a book 
Into which Freemen may look 

Certain to find that the rhymes 
Are laid by for rainy times 

When clouds of passion shall pall 
Liberty's sun light from all ! 

Virgin-like truth, simply drest, 
Telling men, North, South, East, West, 

In every Sovereign State, 

"^Horrid War. 



PREFACE. 

Nations decree their own fate ! 

Seventeen seventy-six 
Found Heroes who would not mix 

Their quantum of 'best bohea 
At the price of liberty : 

But, Eighteen seventy-six 
Finds " Snaikes" who daily mix 

Up ballots with gorging cash, 
Though character tumbles- -crash ! 

Heaven grant our Muse the power 
To reach and enter each door, 

Enlisting American youth 
To wield the ballot for truth ! 

The years that are gone unfold, 
In precedents pure as gold, 

Tis the only certain way 
To forefend early decay. 



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12 PREFACE. 

Go, little Song, to the van! 

Lead on to God, if you can. 

# * * * * 

* * * * 

Ordered by Wisdom's own Aunt, 
Recall what's printed, one can't. 

The Author. 



LET THERE BE LIGHT!!!" 



LIB ER T AS. 



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PART FIRST. 

Argument. — Chaos changes to the Firma- 
ment. Creation of man. Creation's secret. The 
march of Science and her sisters begins. The 
acme of all knowledge. Evil. The rise and 
fall of Ancient Nations. War. Heaven's de- 
crees even love cannot declare. Peace is war's 
severest lesson. Liberty is dimly seen in an- 
cient Greece and Rome. Wisdom and expe- 
rience are powerless to prevent war. 



LIBERTAS 



PART FIRST. 



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Chaos resolves into colossal spheres. 

Reflecting Aurora's first li^ht, 
Soft-tinted Eden, in beauty, appears, 

As vanishes chaotic night. 
Pure as a lilly, with blush like the rose, 

A life warming breath giving birth, 
Stands in the Garden, the first one of those 

Immortal, though mortal on Earth. 



LIBERTAS. 1 7 

The voice of the Heav'ns I heard in my youth,* 

Says Genius. Each glittering star 
Had power to declare a cardinal truth, 

Whose Art-skill and Glory are there. 
The day unto day and night unto night, 

To White and Black; Bondman and Free; 
For man utter speech; for man showeth light; 

Manitou ! Allah ! ! God ! ! ! The decree, 

in. 

Creation's secret, by fruit and by flower, 

By the land and billowy Main, 
By gentle dew-drops and each falling shower, 

By valley and mountainous chain, 
By worlds in atoms and infinite spheres, 

By death, which is life to the sod, 
By darkness, and light, as wisdom appears, 

All nature foreshadows, One God. 

*Vide Ps xix, v's 1-2 



18 LIBERT AS. 

IV. 

Earth's storehouse of truth was mildewed with 

Ere Science began a career, [age 

Filling a schedule of lore, page by page, 

Surprises and marvels each year. 
A wise-acre taught * 'Earth is a square place." 

His fiction gained credence with all 
Until Science proved, it travels through space 

A stupendous spherical ball 5 

v. 
* 4t Made the swift lightning annihilate space ; 

Outstripped the wild wind with the car ; 
Wove priceless fabrics gay beauty to grace, 

And weighed yonder glittering Star; 
Cutting and sawing a man without pain ; 

By watching a needle, to span 
The broad, trackless Waters, such is the chain 
That Science has welded for man." 

*Vide Poem entitled "Genius of Man.". File of New 
York Tribune, 1849. 



LIBERTAS, 19 

VI. 

Man, lessee of Earth to garner its truth, 

Who knows that an All-Seeing Eye 
Watches his pathway from earliest youth, 

Whom the Christ asks grandly to die, 
Revels in slaughter, as battle-fields prove. 

By every race under the Sun, 
War plans from Heaven ? Not so ! God is love. 

And his Love is labor well done. 

viu 

Stupendous paradox ! No finite word 

Can remove the Infinite Seal 
Placed upon righting-of wrong by the sword, 

Revealing why soldiers should kneel 
Asking advantage — May now ghastly Death 

Put some of these thousands at rest ! 
They live by Thy will but draw every breath 

In air that I venture to test ! 



20 LIBERTAS. 

VIII. 

Through a long vista of ages and reigns 

Comes flowing War's mighty flood tide 
O'erwhelming more than the world now contains 

Of mankind, though oft multiplied. 
Sweeping through Egypt proud Pharaoh's host 

Marched spirit-ward in the Red Sea : 
Canaan was oft for Israel tost, 

And why such a dark mystery ? 

IX. 

Why are the Peoples, where nations were born, 

Whose skill the strange Pyramids piled, 
Mighty in Science, from this Planet, torn ? 

Perhaps to some other exiled ? 
Why the deep silence enveloping Thebes 

Whose *hundred-gate ruins remain ? 
Never shall Theban awake though her glebes 

Should hive a great nation again. 

*Vide y Note I. 



LIBERT AS. 21 

X. 

Why have the Kingdoms and Empires passed by, 

As time's stormy blasts swept the tide ? 
Tyre ? And then Greece ? Greece " reared 
Liberty, 

Enkindling her fires far and wide." 
A proud Persian host became Grecian dust— - 

What power some God held and gave ! 
Thermopylae rubbed the taint spots of rust 

From three hundred swords of the brave. 

XT, 

Genius is versatile, All are agreed 

CJ 

The Cherub was happy in Greece, 
Sporting with Plato, Platonic? Indeed 

He trotted the Boy on his knees. 
To bask in his smile yields subtile heart-joy. 

The Sages, and all the old Bards, — 
Homer excepted, he fathered the Boy, 

At least he was one of His Wards, — 



22 LIBERTAS, 

VII. 

Courted the Cherub, each wooing for power 

To wield deathless knowledge ; the Lad, 
To people the Spirit Realm near Pluto's shore, 

Gave heroes the best wit he had. 
Why the dire strife during centuries past ? 

Why the need that soldiers should die ? 
And centuries on is warfare to last ? 

Oh, Love ! solve this dark mystery ! 

XIII. 

Appalling the power for which Romans tried ! 

They armed to enfetter the world ; 
But soon Cato fell and then Brutus died 

That usurping Caesar be hurled 
From off the high seat that Freemen had built 

Within the world's Capital. Then 
Effeminate Rome, grown hoary in guilt, 

" Gallicia's new race of men,"* 

* Vide Note, ii. 



LIBERT AS. 23 

XIV. 

From out of the North, 'midst clashing arms born, 

On battle fields skillful and brave, 
Crushed out forever, "Awoke a new morn," 

But stayed not the great tidal wave. 
Impartial as Fate the scarlet flood tide 

Envelopes patrician and pleb, 
The vista grows dim as if 'twere to hide 

The hour when the red wave shall ebb. 



xv. 

Earth, a true mother, does all that she can 

To beat back the corpse-freighted wave, 
Offering wealth without stint unto man 

And showing peace only can save 
Nations from outside and internal wars; 

That peace is a daughter of love ; 
That when all love peace, no family jars 

Will any great nation approve. 



24 LIBEKTAS, 

XVI. 

Truth seems a mirage. In wisdom's clear light; 
Experience, vast, laid in store ; 

Six thousand years used to set matters right- 
Scientists insist it is more — 

Like Titanic clouds the awful wave rolls 
O'er plain, valley 7 mountain and dell, 

A scarlet-dyed billow, sweeping off souls 
And making Earth semblance of h — 1. 



" Live to bless and not to curse, for what is strife but h— 1 ( 
And peace is heaven, then on to heaven with heavenly peace to dwell , 
Go ! win a world without a tear ! a life without a sigh ! 
And greatly be resolved to live and grandly dare to die." 



LIBERTAS, 



PART SECOND. 

Argument. — Jarring principles. Love. A 
scientific and savage nature necessary to the 
modern warrior. The American Rebellion. The 
late war between France and Germany. Baptism 
of Libertas. Her influence upon the crowned 
heads. Napoleon III. Washington. A con- 
trast. God's Hand-Writing Libertas as a hor- 
ticulturist. A photograph. All other govern- 
ments in contrast with that of the Republic. 
Blood ennobled by " accident" and constituency. 
God save the King remodelled in the interest 
of humanity. 



LIBERTAS. 



PAKT SECOND. 



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At every extreme opinions must jar* 

The right is found, where love controls, 
Between the extremes ; love never lets war 

Send spirit-ward unripened souls. 
Peace, broken and torn, love hastens to lend 

Her tears for the sorrows all feel ; 
She watches the fate of son, sire and friend 

Whenever " Steel clashes with steel." 



LIBERTAS. 29 

II. 

King Jove swallowed *Metis fearing her child 

Would rival him in God like skill; 
The pains that soon racked him set his brain 

So f Vulcan struck at him until, [wild, 

From a large orifice cleft in Jove's head, 

Made merely to set the pains free, 
Wonderful wonder of-wonders ! 5 Tis said 

MinervaJ sprang armed Cap-a-pie. 

in. 
The Goddess of Skill, regardless of Jove, 

Determined to marry Wild Mars, 
Like some other tw^ain not mated by love, 

They fill Earth with family jars. 
Most of the Nations were garnering life, 

At peace with themselves near and far : 
Minerva and Mars, both eager for strife, 

Persuaded the foul fiends of war, 

*Vide, Note iii. f Jove's Armorer Vide Note iv. 
% Goddess of skill and Wisdom. 



30 LIBERTAS. 

IV. 

To make of the Earth a huge pair of scales ; 

Each balance was like a balloon ; 
By killing on one side a ^million of males 

They frolicked thro' space to the Moon. 
King craft petitioned them, their ancient wooer, 

To visit the Rhine for a dance, 
The scales showed a balance certainly truer— 

They slaughtered a million in France. 

v. 
Truth hasone Earth Child,half Goddess,half girl. 

When born, she determined to fix 
A name for her babe that each Kingly churl 

Has hated. She went to the fStyx, 
Where, watching 'til Juno curtained great Jove 

To lecture him well for some lass, 
Like JThetis, the Sea Nymph, baptized her love, 

And christened the child ||Libertas. 

*The American Rebellion. Vide Notes fv. %v\. and jjvii. 



LIBERTAS. 31 

VI. 

Olympian Jove looked on with dismay 

When Libert as, with gentle trust, 
Made Him a visit her homage to pay, 

As all Gods and Goddesses must. 
Clearly he saw by omnipotent light, 

This Daughter of Truth was a prize 
Mankind could revere, who, crush as he might, 

With unconquered spirit would rise. 

VII. 

Libertas fearlessly watches the shock 

When kings march their hosts face to face. 
Around thee, Switzerland, totter and rock 

Thrones, spite of u Pure unction and grace." 
He who was careful to flatter and feast 

II Papa* long guarding his home, 
Bidding up high to get oil from tho Priest, 

With Libertas throttled in Rome. 

*Vide Note viii, a b c. 



32 LIBERTAS. 

VIII. 

Made a grave error by playing the king, 

A Count of the old Prussian race, 
Regnant with power that armies may bring, 

Just covered the king with an *ace. 
Or, as a wager, two Rulers agreed 

To let war decide a sad pass, 
How to aid kingcraft there being sore need 

To sooth the sweet girl f Libertas. 

IX. 

A slight l "Casus belli" Libertas makes 

Up for one whose station was high, 
Mistaking his power — who rules mistakes ? — 

An exile, the world saw him die. 
Not like a Washington loved by The Free ; 

A soldier —his life set apart 
To fight for Libertas unswervingly, 

With only his Country at heart. 

* Vide Note viii. c. f Vide Note ix. % Vide Note x. 



LIBERTAS, 33 

X. 

France, true to herself, unmindful of fear, 

Is sad at Napoleon's doom ; 
The Sons of Libertas go, once a year, 

And *kneel around Washington's tomb. 
The tide that is flood in every man's life 

Passed under the Emperor's eye ; 
Clinging to dynasty maintained by strife, 

He failed to embark — it flowed by. 

XI. 

There is a precedent which should restrain 

Each ruler to a act well his part ;" 
Of Beishazzar's feast the record is vain 

For those who have treason at heart. 
Look ! u Mene, tefcel, upliarsin" God's word. 

Which no earthly ruler can pass ; 
Like lightning it struck Napoleon III 

For wooing to jilt Libertas, 

*Vide Note xi, 

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34 LXBERTAS. 

XII. 

To many young hearts in Prussia and France 

Sweet Libertas flew through the air 
In form of a bird. She took it, perchance, 

For putting in grafts here and there. 
Her beauty excels. No hunter has found 

A plumage of such brilliant hue ; 
Her song is so pure, the warbler's around 

All listen until she is through. 

XIII. 

Her exquisite beauty, untouched by years, 
Reflecting the smiles of the Free, 

She shows as a maiden : then, she appears 
The Goddess of Man's Liberty. 



LIBERTAS. 85 



PHOTOGRAPH OF LIBERTAS. 



i 

Libertas ! Libertas ! 

Goddess of all " The Free P 
Wavy tresses of golden hair, 

Rosy-ripe lips that kiss the air, 
There can never be Queen so fair !— ■ 

Goddess of Liberty i 

ii 
Libertas ! Libertas ! 

Goddess of all " The Free P 
Though mantling blush of love is there* 

She meets the foe with glare for glare, 
In dreadful strength of direful war,— - 

Goddess of Liberty ! 



36 LIBEKTAS. 

Ill 

Libertas ! Libertas ! 

Goddess of all " The Free V 
Lover of peace without compare, 

Weaving a web that Freemen wear, 
Love's warp and woof— what hand would 

Goddess of Liberty! [tear? — 

IV 

Libertas ! Libertas ! 

Goddess of all "The Free!" 
Asking of Heaven a country. There, 

She, in ''Seventy-six, with care, 
Planted homes for the Brave and Fair.— 

Goddess of Liberty ! 

v. 

Libertas ! Libertas ! 

Goddess of all " The Free !" 
Silver threads trace never the hair 

Gracing her brow and bosom, where 
Are heart-beats for mankind to share — 

Goddess of Liberty ! 



LIBERT AS* 3? 

In dear Fatherland and all over France 

Truth hovers in mask on the wins; 
A coy, but brave bird— in every war-dance, 

She tries to make Libertas sing. — 
Ah, what's in a name ? Brave Fatherland sons> 

Is truth a pride with the Kings 
Who buckle on swords and shoulder their guns 

To maintain what " Right Divine 5 ' brings ? 

XV, 

Ah, what's in a name ? The Lilly of France 

Often kindled liberty's fire, 
Yet, mounted were steeds, in rest was the lance 

To enthrone the "Son of his Sire." 
Ah, what's in a name? They're governments? Ah! 

What matters the kind or the name? 
King, or an Emperor ? Queen, or a Shah ? 

There's trouble in all, just the same. 



STS LlBE&fAS.* 

XVI. 

Clerk trouble with placemen ends what is same, 

As routine's red tape circles on ; 
Libertas hears few utter her name 

If ^accident settles bon ton. 
But where she unfurled, a century since, 

The " Stars and the Stripes/' yeomen sing 
This glorious song — u Each Son is a Prince" 

And each Sire a Sovereign King. 

xvii. 
Pure blood, lack-a-day, in most lands and climes. 

Makes legal a Sovereign's reign ; 
Blood accidental, though pure, is sometimes 

Found mantling a brow without brain. f 
Blood, when ennobled " Affairs" to arrange, 

Is frequently lacking in skill ; 
The huger the- joke the quicker a change 

. Where Votes wield the Sovereign will. 

*Vide Note xii. f Vide Note xiii; 



libertas. 39 

XVIII. 

The scarlet flood tide will finally ebb 

When all shall learn life is for love \ 
That blessings, not cursings, weave Heaven's web 

To gather in Spirits Above. 
In that day new chords the Nations shall bind, 

And millions rejoice who now weep ; 
" God save the King" shall be God save mankind^ 

Ennobled by ^Heroes who sleep. 

^Vide Note xiv, 



"Act well thy part, there, all the honor lies/' 



Pope. 



LIBERTAS. 



PART THIRD. 



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Argument. — The golden passport to futurity. 
Pertinent queries. The Book of Nature. A 
Muster Roll. The Robe of Libertas is sent to 
the Laundry. Religious Liberty the only bul- 
wark of Civil Liberty. Plymouth Rock in 1620, 
The Litany of the Free. The true doctrine ot 
Election. A lesson from the " Honored Dead ' 5 
of the Republic. Labor. The Golden Rule. 
Capital, The New Trinity* 



LIBERTAS 



PART THIKD. 



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With the * golden bough for Proserpine, pass 

The Stygian Lake and expose 
Time's subtile unrest. Ah, sweet Libertas ! 

Must thou, Cupid's love freighted rose, 
Living a season in elegant bloom, 

Par oneri,\ Queen of the Flowers, 
Slumber at Winter, as if in a tomb, 

To waken with Spring's sunny showers? 

*Vide Note xv. f Equal to the burden. 



L1BERTAS. 43 

II. 

The beautiful rose, perennial flower, 

To coquettish ways is inclined ; 
Each bud whispers love; but, there comes an hour 

When even the rose is unkind. 
Evoke the full lesson ! Beautiful rose ! 

In love, not a flower so adorns ; 
When Winter sets in and on to the close 

Its sway is restricted to thorns. 

in. 

The artizan changes glittering gold 

Into grotesque, multiform styles, 
Pins, ear-drops, finger-rings, all to be sold, 

And quite as mere fancy beguiles. 
The flowers depart when the beautiful snow 

Comes freighting a rude northern blast; 
Acorns, if sprouted and suffered to grow, 

Become noble oaks at the last. 



4tt LiBEirrAs, 

IV. 

Gold rings and flowers, it clearly appears, 

Become precious relics. To youth, 
The ring, or the flower, silently, bears 

A pledge of unwavering truth- 
A tree becomes trysting whose shadows conceal 

The first kiss. The angels above 
Know it by blushes that ever reveal 

A timid fawn startled by love. 

v. 

Beautiful lessons from beautiful things 

Are taught to whoever will read 
The unwritten book of Nature. It brings 

The wisest to alter his creed. 
Even the scholar with learning's surcharge 

Finds out peerless Nature is given, 
With codified laws he may not enlarge, 

At any rate, this side of Heaven.* 

* Vide Note xxvi. 



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LIBERTAS. 

VI. 

Shall Libertas, like a' fledgling young bird 

Attempting a far eyrie hight, 
Neglecting mother-bird's cautioning word, 

Lose balancing power in her flight ? 
Till a decree be entered by Fate 

With warrant, as in days of old, — 
Petty Republics* of each Sovereign State ! — 

My lady wants baubles of Gold ? 

VII. 

Or, shall she brine: to the United States 

An era of despotic pewer j 
Asleep, while her ship is wrecked by the fates, 

She, being a beautiful flower. 
To blossom in Spring ; to wither in Fall ; 

To slumber a long Winter's night, 
While usurpers rise obeying a call 

So subtilely named "Divine Right?" 

*Vide Note xvi. 



46 LIBERTAS. 

VIII. 

Or, like the acorn, with power to provoke 

From Earth a young sapling, at length 
Grown with the years to a noble old oak, 

Its branches outspreading, in strength 
To scatter a grateful shade o'er the land, 

A mighty, magnificent tree, 
Through future Ages, shall Libertas stand 

A Sentinel over f6 The Free ? 

IX. 

Her u Stars and Stripes," famed, like lasses, beguile 

To land on the encircling Coast 
Men oi "Old England, and Erin's Green Isle, 

Of Wales, and of Scotland, a host, 
Of each Celtic race, the Dutch and the Dane, 

And many from Italy's shores, 
Of Arabs and Turks, Hidalgoes from Spain, 

From Germany, what a stream pours £* 

*Vide Note xxv. 



LIBERTAS. 
X. 

Finlander, Laplander, Norwegian, Swede, 

A few from once Classical Greece, 
Switzers and Portuguese, coming, agreed 

To live happy lives here on this 
One spot of Earth free to all men oppressed, 

From China and ancient Japan, 
Sons of all Nations — by mothers caressed — 

And millions to come when they can. 

XI. 

Also the negro, of Africa's host, 

Whose country lies under the Sun; — 
Blood and gold infinite their coming cost. 

But ^principle also was won : 
The beautiful robe of sweet Libertas 

Was skillfuly w r ashed and bleached white : 
Four millionsf of Slaves were granted a pass 

To Freedom — man's God given right. 

*Vide Note xvii, a, \b. 



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48 



LIBERTAS. 



XII 

Cling* to the Bible ! Heaven help a land 

If captured to impious sway ! 
There the white Ermine is but slight-o'-hand 

And officers vultures of prey. 
Let the example of loved Washington 

Be standard for all holding place ! 
Virtue's lithe sinews are agile to run 

Against Father Time's steady pace. 

XIII. 

They who first settled the " Land of the Free" 

Sought freedom to worship their God ; 
He who shall dare strike at this liberty, 

Grant swiftly just "Six feet of sod;"f 
For the wild tiger none ever can tame ; 

Its prey will be sweet Libertas ; 
Give him the bullet ! and blot out his name ! 

Mark not with a headstone the grass 

*Vide Note xviii, a. \ b. 



LIBKRTAS, 49 

XIV. 

Over the spot where his carcass shall lie! 

Oblivion be his Ions: rest ! 
Of the strange creature let memory die ! 

The storm sings his requiem best. 
Such be the doom for all such who appear, 

But patiently bear with mistake ! 
The best hill of corn will blast in the ear 

If weeds never feel hoe and rake. 

xv. 
Time and the Sunshine eradicate stains. 

The Exiles from far away Lands, 
Suddenly free from their fetters and chains, 

Soon know the right use of their hands. 
Let them all learn that "Our Fathers" have trod 

As Libertas, pointing, has led, 
Putting their trust most humbly in God 

And making skilled hands through the head.* 

*Vide Note xix. 



50 LIBERTAS. 

XVI. 

Wake from the harp strings a solemn refrain ! 

A litany for Heaven's care ! 
Let each vale and hill, again and again, 

Re-echo the sweet strains of prayer ! 
Love bows the knee, ever patient and kind, 

As onward her votaries march, 
Bearing the banners of knowledge and mind 

To the hights of wisdom's research. 



LIBERTAS. 51 



LITANY OF THE FREE. 



God of Nations ! Hear thy children 

In the solemn Litany ! 
Bow'd before Thee at the Altar 
With a prayer for Liberty ! 

Miserere ! Miserere ! 
Miserere ! Domine ! 

ii 

From the surges of the Ocean, 

In the tempests wild and free, 
Thou hast heard thy children calling 
In the solemn Litany. 

Miserere ! Miserere ! 
Miserere ! Domine ! 



52 LIBERTAS. 

Ill 

In the hour of angry passion, 
Where the Flag of Liberty 
Is unfurled. Oh ! m% thy children 
Heed the solemn Litany ! 

Miserere ! Miserere ! 
Miserere ! Domine ! 

IV 

That no fratricidal warfare 

Curse the Land of Liberty, 
May the Free, as brothers, worship 
In the solemn Litany ! 

Miserere ! Miserere ! 
Miserere ! Domine ! 



If the foreign Princes gather, 

Pledged to war with Liberty, 
Be Thou then thy children's buckler ! 
Hear ! Oh, hear their Litany ! 
Miserere ! Miserere ! 
Miserere ! Domine ! 



LIB BETAS. 53 

VI. 

Let not pride of wealth or station 

Tempt the Free to luxury ! 
Nor a Freeman turn from Heaven ! 
Or the solemn Litany ! 

Miserere ! Miserere ! 
Miserere ! Domine ! 

VIII. 

In its orbit, down the Ages, 

May the Star of Liberty 
Shine resplendent, and all Nations 
Chant the solemn Litany ! 

Miserere! Miserere!* 
Miserere ! Domine ! 
* Pity ! Pity ! Pity ! Oh Lord ! 



M LIBERTAS". 

XV IT. 

God in the heart, the Executive Head 

Will not stain the Red, White and Blue; 
God in the heart, the Ermine must wed 

With Justice 'her scales weighing true; 
God in the heart the Laws will be made just 

To safely guard freedom of will; 
God in the hearts of The People, He must 

Say " Peace ! Selfish passions be still !* 

XVIII. 

Hearts sprung, like acorns, to trees of live oak. 

Declared Thirteen Colonies free: 
Seven long years saw the Lion provoke 

His choler against, the decree. 
Why are the names from John Hancock down 

Regarded with honor ? Forsooth, 
Treated as Saints are by Stole and by Gown ? 

Because they feared God, loving truth. 

-Vide Note xx. 



LIBERT AS. 55 

XIX. 

" Trusting in God, with their powder kept dry," 

They worried and tortured the "Beast"* 
Until at York town a finality 

Gave freedom to people and priest. 
Protestant, catholic, fought side by side 

A long, bloody warfare to fix 
Libertas conqueror, such was the pride 

And glory of 'Seventy- Six. 

xx. 
Consistency, virgin, spotless and fair, 

To truth is now sisterly mate; 
"No slave on Free Soil !" The level and square 

Have measured f The Grand Compact straight. 
To all in the land it grants happiness 

Alike for the rich and the poor 
To pursue. Labor, with white or black face 

Holds, equally, Sovereign Power. 

* Vide Note xxi, a, -\b. 



56 LIBERT AS 

XXI, 

If Libertas gains the champion's belt 

Her sons and her daughters must tail 
With both head and hands to make labor felt 

To be honor's lease of free soil. 
And not merely felt ; the lease, it must be — 

A capitalist is a bat 
Who sees in his cash patrician degree, 

A crown in the crown of his hat. 

XXII. 

Now tune the harp strings for labor's refrain ! 

A song taught by One of The Three ! 
The There asserted to be one again — 

One (" three-clover leaf") Trinity. 



LABOR'S REFRAIN, 



OR 



THE BLESSED SAVIOUR'S 

GOLDEN RULE. 



THE GOLDEN RULE. 



T 

Paradise here on this beautiful Earth ; 

Trouble and trial unknown to the mind ; 
This can be only for those who are worth 

Fortune, with comfort and goodness combined. 
Lower the wages is what some approve 

Knowing that saving will make fortune sure ; 
Gold is bat dross if the angels above 

Testify truly you took from the poor 

Refrain — Fortune I'll gather but always will try 
To act on the beautiful lesson we learn 
'Do unto others as you'd be done bv!" 
To rectify errors none ever return.* 

*This song has been set to music and is published by Ditson & Co. 
of Boston, Mass. 



60 THE GOLDEN KULE. 

II. 

Blessings are priceless when gathered from those 

Toiling for wages that life may endure ; 
Some do not learn, until too late to choose, 

Gold cannot purchase a smile from the poor. 
Speaking like angels, the tongue is unblest, 

Charity knowing the heart as her foe, 
Write on a stone where this body shall rest 

a Gold from the poor man, I don't want it so." 
Refrain. — Fortune I'll gather, etc. 

XXIII. 

Of what use are hands without call to work ? 

If capital's purpose be led 
To seek labor's aid, will honest men shirk 

The toil that insures daily bread ? 
Trying by Votes to trip capital's leg ? 

To wring off the neck of the goose 

That lays every day a bright golden egg ?* 

Will labor thus Ballots abuse ?f 
"vEsop's Fable, -f Vide Note xxii. 



THE GOLDEN RULE. 61 

XXIV. 

Freemen ! Beware of all false to this trust ! 

Teach your sons, as you learned of old, 
The way to maintain authority just, 

Defending both labor and gold. 
"Faithful in little" has lifted to power 

Evoking the blessings of Heaven ; 
"Ruler o'er much" is the bountiful shower, 

The reward to faithfulness given. 

xxv. 
Man easily finds the safe and clear path 

By the * Guide Post set up for all; 
Wonderful pages ! — Of Love and of Wrath ! — 

Before which, the craftiest fall. 
There are subtile laws, immutable, sure ; 

A set of rules Nature obeys ; 
And this one is central — Nations endure 

ft Where manhood shuns luxury's ways. 

* Vide Note xxiii. 



62 THE GOLDEN RULE. 

XXVI 

So may dear Libertas, safely, mount high'r 

As Earth, with her caldron of thrones 
Seething and boiling above hearts on fire, 

Is filled with re-echoing groans. 
For, like the old oak, she watches The Free ; 

In love, a rose ; in faith a ring. 
Let The Free hail her, a new Trinity ! 

Sires! Mothers! Sons ! Daughters ! all Sing 



(L'ENVOI,) 

LIBERTAS. 
THE RING, THE ROSE, THE OAK; 



OR, 



THE NEW TRINITY. 



^he 9Km<3 



Archaic type of holy faith ! 

One of the Trinity ! 
Pilot rector of whisp'ring breath ! 

Saving man, in battle with Death, 
From the sting of its direful wraith ; 

Angel of Liberty ! - ■ 



64 LIBERTAS. 

ii. 

Sweet-scented Bud ! Perfumed to cheer ! 

Queenly beautiful Flower ! 
All are glad with the Roses here ! 
Hid in the breast, there will appear 

The Olive Branch ; then, peace is near, 
Bringing love's natal hour. 

III. 
Down the Ages, unmatched in skill 

The Oak shall sentry be ; 
For its verdure, Earth to distil 

Dews and showers, renewing its fill 
Of strength to guard, by Heaven's will, 

The Charter of The Free. 

FINIS. 



ERRATA. 

Page 5 — f Vide Note xxiv, b. 

Page 56 — Verse xxii, There should be Three. 

Page 79— W. M. Vananden, Esq. should be W. M. 
Van Anden, Esq. 



NOTES. 



NOTE I, PART FIRST, VS. IX. 

Hecatompjdos (Hundred-gated) although an error of 
Homer (Vide Anthon's Classical Dictionary) and per- 
haps conveying a falsity, one cannot, except by way of 
Nota Bene, easily, quickly and with plastic consent, 
give up. 

As ancient Thebes was never surrounded with walls,, 
the pretty and euphonious appelative must (Nota Bene) 
axiomatically be consigned to the dross of literature. 
Because Homer uses it, " evidently the exaggeration of 
some Phcenecian trader," it is made irresistably ap- 
parent that he never visited ancient Thebes. 

What a dictation is this to every one who shall pre- 
sume to write, what a fearful warning to those who 
shall enact, history ? Thousands of years .^o by and 
lo ! The *cerberic watch dog of Truth detects Homer, 
the Father of Poetry, to be a retail scribe of imaginative 
amplitude. Newsmen Reportive who must fill an al- 
loted space in journals have some excuse. Homier 
cannot be so let off. Better were it for Homer's reputa- 
tion as to accuracy had the waters, in his day, become 
dry land and the dry land waters. The lesson, often 
reiterated, is plain. All that is false shall die. Truth 
alone is to live forever. Will men who are called to, of 
(the good old way being out of fashion) who strive for 
and gain office in the National or State Service note the 
lesson as they make history. *' Better a good name than 
great riches." 

We append here a sufficiently exhaustive discussion 
of this interesting question by Philip Smith, B.A,, in 
his Ancient History of the East, page 104. 

" The tame of Egyptian Thebes was well known to 
Homer, who speaks of "Egyptian Thebes, where are 

* Vide Note xxiv, c. 



66 NOTES. 

vast treasures laid up in the houses ; where are a hund- 
red gates, and from each two hundred men go forth 
with horses and chariots ;" that is, 10,000 chariots, 
with two men for each. The numbers are of course 
poetical, but the epithet Hecatompylos endured. 

The explanation of Diodorus (i, 45-57) that the " 100 
gates refer to Xhe propylcea of the temples is as decidedly 
unpoetical. 

All traces of the city wall had disappeared in the 
time of Diodorus, and the absence of any vestige of a 
wall goes far to show there never was one. Sir G. 
Wilkinson holds that it was not the custom of the 
Egyptians to wall in their cities. See his account of their 
fortifications in Rawiinson's Heroditus, vol. ii. p. 257. 

Thebes Pliny describes asa u hanging city" built upon 
arches, so that an army could be led forth from beneath it 
without the knowledge of the inhabitants. It has been 
suggested that there may have been near the river line 
arched buildings used as barracks, from whose gateways 
10,000 war-chariots may have issued forth. 

This does not help Homer's reputation, a city of a 
hundred gates dwindling to barracks or stables for 
20,000 horses. Evidently Homer never visited ancient 
Thebes. 

NOTE II. PART FIRST, VS. XV. 

Young Gallicians made war a pastime. In manhood 
it became their profession. 

Gallia (ancient) was bounded on the north by the 
Insula Bativorum (of or pertaining to Holland) and 
part of the river Rhine ; east by the Rhine and the Alps; 
south by the Pyranees, and west by the Atlantic ocean. 
This included France and Belgium, with slices from 
Holland, Prussia and Germany. France is larger on 
the east. 

Ancient Gallia, although larger than modern France, 
was smaller than the Empire under the first Napoleon. 
(Authon.) 

Gallia, Galatia, Gallicia, Gaul. 



NOTES. 67 



NOTE III- 

In ancient mythology Jupiter, or Jove, was King of 
all the Gods and men. Being informed that his wife 
Metis would give birth to a maiden who should equal 
him in wisdom and skill, and to a son who would be 
king of all the Gods and men, he swallowed her, then 
encient. In time he was seized with terrible pains in 
the head. To relieve himself, he ordered Vulcan to 
cleave his skull with the brazen hatchet. This being 
done, Minerva, In full panoply, leaped forth from the 
brain of her sire. 

In war she is opposed to Mars, the wild war-God. 
In ancient prose and poetry, the great deeds of the 
heroes are usually accomplished by their aid. It may 
be considered an innovation to unite in marriage during 
the nineteenth century Mars and Minerva. 

As an apolegetic, perhaps socratic query, it is asked, 
can the wonderful skill, foresight and genius, together 
with the terrible blood-letting power of a great soldier 
of the nineteenth century be, mythologically, better rep- 
resented ? Surely in Napoleon the First and Welling- 
ton, Mars and Minerva were y and in Grant and Moltke 
are indissolubly united, 

NOTE IV. 

Vulcan was the God of Fire, son of Jupiter and Juno* 
He presided over the working of metals, was husband 
of Venus, and forged the thunderbolts for his father. 

NOTE V. PART SECOND, VS. V. 

The Styx was a fabulous river of the lower world, as 
has been suggested, in all probability, an idea borrowed 
from the Styx of Arcadia. The waters of the latter 
were said to be envenomed with poison. The former 
was supposed to encompass the lower regions nine 
times. As its waters were said to be sluggish, some- 
times it was called the Stygian Lake. A mortal dipped 
therein became invulnerable. 



68 notes. 



NOTE VI. PART SECOND, VS. V. 

Thetis, wife of Peleus and mother of Achilles, was 
one of the Nereides, Sea Deities. Homer makes Thetis 
plunge Achilles into the Styx, thus rendering him as to 
the whole body, except the heel by which she held him, 
invulnerable. Truth, the mother of Libertas, remem- 
bers and follows the example set for her by Thetis. 

NOTE VII. PART SECOND, VS. V. 

The text ventures to restore to the Goddess of Liberty 
her original and certainly more euphonious name. 

Time, with its changes, and so it has dealt with 
this word, in a few instances, makes sad havoc with 
words, at times even disregarding proper claims set up 
for beauty, sense, adaptation and, as with Libertas, 
euphony. Vide Note viii. 

Some educators would banish the Classics (Dead 
Languages) from the curriculum. Have these gentle- 
men fully considered the inevitable result? In one 
cycle of man's life it would become necessary to recall , 
them in order to know English. As well banish the 
smoothing plane and double-jointer from a kit of tools 
and do the carpenter's duty with a jack. 

The Avon Bard wrought with about 15,000 words ; 
Byron, 10,000 ; Henry Ward Beecher, so far, has used 
about 7,000. An ordinal clergyman calls in play from 
1,500 to 3,000. A merely businessman calls to his aid 
about 300 to 500 words. 

Men who desire to be practical solely may safely shun 
the Classics. All who desire to become scholars will 
faithfully study each and every sound yet wrought into 
and expressed by words of whatever language. 

They will explore the river to its fountain spring and 
know its rise and windings. 

Doctor Livingstone sought the source of the Nile. 
Stanley, aided by the New York Herald, sought and found 
the grand old Doctor. Not less carefully and faithfully 
will scholarly explorers seek the fountain hieroglyphs 
of the mighty rivers of language. Exactly as far as 
they go the world will be made wiser. 



NOTES. 69 

Doctor Livingston had no "time to make money." 
Agassiz, in reply to an offer of one thousand dollars for a 
single lecture, wrote his declination in these words : 
"I have no time to make money." The heroes ! — the 
true heroes" — no time to be practical in the sense of ac- 
cumulation. Plenty of time to labor, toil and plan to 
increase the treasures of Science. 

The scholars of the human race are, we say it without 
hyperbole, as one to a million. Are there fourteen 
hundred on earth to-day like Humbolt, Livingstone, 
Agassiz — one for each one million of the fourteen hund- 
red millions of the earth's inhabitants ? 

Yet these fourteen hundred {plus or minus) are the 
leaders of humanity. The million minds may slight the 
Classics. The one will explore them and the million 
bow to his dictation and instruction. "Knowledge is 
power" — auctoritatem. How the American heart 
throbbed with pride as the Citizen-Statesman, William 
Henry Seward, the scholar and apostle of American 
Liberty, and later Ulysses S. Grant, honored with 
their presence the palaces of the Rulers of the Earth ! 

Those who are in favor of banishing the Classics from 
the curriculum would turn the mightiest river of knowl- 
edge into a completely absorbing quicksand colonizing 
the babes who shall form the next generation of human- 
ity upon terra jirma, a thousand stadia beyond. And 
what for? Earlier in life to produce from the babes, 
heroes of trade, mechanics, agriculture et ccetera. 
Gentlemen, school superintendents, beware ! These 
true heroes of Trade, Mechanics and Agriculture will 
despise ye. They will teach ye that in their stores, fac- 
tories and fields they lean upon, revere, and through 
their sons and daughters, emulate the one man of the 
million. The man who iutroduces to you one son, a 
skillful surgeon ; another, an eminent clergyman ; a 
third, a successful merchant, says, modestly, "forty 
years ago I carried a hod and could neither read nor 
write ; now I can do both." 

It is the genius of true liberty that youth may 



TO JtOTfiK* 

fix his glance upon excelsior. But he who stops at 
Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar, Reading, Writing and 
Spelling, stays and sleeps there. These are useful 
rounds in the ladder to gold and gilded station. Not 
more. 

Mother-wit is abetter legacy than gold. Coupled 
with the polish of genuine scholarship, it becomes 
maltum in parvo — a great soul in a handful of dust. Dur- 
ing time, and perhaps eternity, a mighty motor for good 
or evil. 

NOTE VIII. FART SECOND, VS. VII. 

Holy Oil, administered by // Papa, or bv his order, 
at the Coronation ceremonies of Kings and Emperors, 
among Roman Catholics and the Greek church, has 
carried with it, belief in "Authority by Divine Right." 
Vide description of the crowning of Napoleon I by // Pa- 
pa in Josephine by L. Muhlback. 

"// Papa" the Pope. "Latin, Papa; French, Pape 
English, Pope; Italian, II Papa/' — Webster. 

b. Had Napoleon III been satisfied, after having been 
made President of republican France, to become citi- 
zen Napoleon, gracefully yielding his place to a succes- 
sor elected by the people, to-day his memory would be 
equivalent to the greatest of earthly rulers past and 
present. 

c. In most games of cards the ace is the lead- 
ing or highest card in suit. When played it will con- 
quer the kinsr. 

NOTE IX. PART SECOND, VS. VIII. 

Libertas, the Goddess of Freedom was, to use the 
language of Doctor Anthon, "Identical with the Eleu- 
theria of the Greeks. Hyginus makes her the daughter 
of Jupiter and Juno." 

It is scarcely possible that she should be other than 
the daughter of Truth, mother and nurse of the holy 
angels. The text ventures upon this amendment to 
ancient mythology. 



NOTES, 71 

Tiberius Gracchus is said to have erected the first 
temple to her in Rome on the Aventine Hill, in which 
the Archives of the State were deposited. 

The Goddess was represented as a Roman matron ar- 
rayed in white, holding in one hand a broken sceptre, 
and in the other a pike surmounted by a pileus, or cap. 
At her feet lay a cat, an animal that is an enemy of all 
restraint. The cap alluded to the Roman custom of 
putting one on the heads of slaves when manumitted. 

The Goddess of American Liberty is indeed a matron 
and mother of forty-five millions of American sons and 
daughters. But as Holy Mary, by immaculate con* 
ception is the Virgin mother of the Babe born in Beth- 
lehem, so Libertas, by poetical conception, is the Virgin 
mother of Freemen. 

NOTE X. PART SECOND, VS. IX, 

Cause of War. — It will be remembered that Queen 
Isabella was driven from the Spanish Throne and the 
Republic set up. An attempt was made to elect as 
King of Spain a Hohenzollern which Napoleon III chose 
to accept as a casus belli cast against him by William 
IV, the then King of Prussia, afterwards Emperor of 
Germany. 

NOTE XI. PART SECOND, VS. X, 

The " Fourth of July" is the " Festival of Liberty," 
commemorated in the United States of America by the 
people assembling for prayer, praise and thanksgiving. 
The day is always ushered in by national salutes fired in 
every city, town, village, and, almost, hamlet, 

Then also the spirit of 1776 is let off by "Young 
America" in fire works, the cost of which yearly would 
build, rig, arm and equip several national ships of war. 
On this day, wherever, throughout the earth, theje is an 
American citizen, there will be seen a celebration sui 
generis. 

But the American did not institute the Festival of 
Liberty. 



72 NOTES* 

The Eleutheria of the ancient Greeks was the first 
regularly appointed " Festival of Liberty." Even the 
mode of celebration is substantially copied by the 
American. Says Anthon, "By decree it was ordained 
that ' Deputies' should be sent every fifth year from all 
the cities of Greece to celebrate it. The ceremonies 
began with a procession. At the instant of daybreak a 
'Trumpeter' sounded the signal of battle. The pro^ 
cession of 'Deputies' forming column, chariots bringing 
up the rear bearing myrrh, libations and a bull for sacri- 
fice, commenced a march." 

The Ba?'bacue of many a " Fourth of July" celebration 
requires but little effort of the imagination to appear to 
be a eapy of this sacrifice of the "Bull to Jupiter and 
Mercury." 

" At evening the chief officer of the city (equivalent to 
Mayor) where the Festival happened to be held, going 
to the place of 'Sepulture,' poured out the libation and 
drank to 'Those who lost their lives in defence of the 
liberties of Greece.' " 

May the Eleutherian Festival of American Liberty 
never be omitted ; but, with each cycle, its memories be 
transmitted to the hearts of those who have inherited 
and shall inherit Sovereign Power in the Ballot 1 

NOTE XII. PART SECOND, VS. XVI. 

" The noble Duke cannot look before him. behind him 
or on either side of him without seeing some noble Peer 
who owes his seat in this House to being the accident of an 
accident." Pitfs reply to Lord Thurlow. 

NOTE XIII, PART SECOND, VS. XVI. 

Thomas Jefferson's opinion of European Sovereigns 
in 1789 is in point. In an official letter to Washington 
written from Paris, he says : 

" I often amuse myself with contemplating the char- 
acters of the then reigning sovereigns of Europe. Louis 
XVI was a fool, of my own knowledge and in despite 



KOTES, 73 

of the answers made for him at his trial. The King of 
Spain was a fool ; he of Naples the same. They passed 
their lives in hunting, and dispatched two couriers a 
week one thousand miles to let each other know what 
game they had killed the preceding days. The King of 
Sardinia was a fool. All were Bourbons. The Queen 
of Portugal, a Braganza, was an idiot by nature, and so 
was the King of Denmark. Their sons, as Regents, 
exercised the powers of government. The King of 
Prussia, a successor to the great Frederick, was a mere 
boy in body as well as mind. Gustavus, of Sweden, 
and Joseph of Austria, were really crazy, and George, 
of England, was in a straight waistcoat. There re- 
mained then, none but old Catharine, who had been 
too lately picked up to have lost her common sense. 
In this state Bonaparte found Europe, and it was this 
state of its rulers which lost it with scarce a struggle/' 

Vide Anecdotes of Public Men, page 391, by John 
W. Forney. 

NOTE XIV. PART SECOND, VS. XVIII. 

Called to Washington on official business, I find my- 
self this warm and breezy morning of the 30th of May, 
1871, seated at the open window of my old room in the 
Mills House, once more looking over into the sacred 
grounds of Arlington, where twenty thousand Union 
soldiers sleep their last sleep, and silently, yet sternly 
sentinel the Capitol they saved, And this is '• Decora- 
tion Day !" The Departments are closed in honor of 
the dead heroes. From Maine to Mexico, wherever the 
grave of a Union Soldier is found, it will be visited by 
some Union man or woman. 

"Such graves as these are pilgrim shrines, 
Shrines to no code or creed confined ; 
The Delphian vales, the Palestines — 
The Meccas of the mind." 

John W. Forney, 



74 



NOTES. 



NOTE XV. PART THIRD, VS 4 I. 



The golden bough from the trees sacred to Infernal 
Juno was the talisman obtained for ^Eneas by his God- 
dess mother Venus with which he propitiated Proser- 
pine before he was permitted to descend to the Plutonian 
Regions, and learn the purposes of the Fates. With- 
out the sacred talisman no one could return to earth who 
once crossed the River Styx. 

NOTE XVI. PART THIRD, VS. VI. 

Destroy this Union and the nation split into factions 
will fall under the domination of foreign Powers.— 
Robert Morris, in the United States Senate. 

In 1836 Caleb Cushing used this unequalled language 
in the House of Representatives : 

" I pray to God if in the decree of his Providence he 
have any mercy in store for me, not to suffer me to 
behold the hour of its dissolution ; its glory extinct ; the 
banner of its pride rent and trampled in the dust ; its 
nationality a moral of history ; its grandeur a lustrous 
vision of the morning slumber vanished ; its liberty a 
disembodied spirit, brooding like the genius of the Past 
amid the prostrate monuments of its old magnificence. 
To him that shall compass or plot the dissolution of this 
Union, I would apply language resembling what I re- 
member to have seen of an old anathema. Wherever 
fire burns or water runs : wherever ship floats or land 
is tilled : wherever the skies vault themselves, or the 
lark carrols to the dawn, or sun shines, or earth greens 
in his rays : wherever God is worshiped in temples, or 
heard in thunder : wherever man is honored or woman 
loved — there, from thenceforth and forever, shall there 
be to him no part or lot in the honor of man or the love 
of woman. Ixion's revolving wheel, the overmantling 
cup at which Tantalus may not slake his unquenchable 
thirst ; the insatiate vulture gnawing at the immortal 
heart of Promethens ; the rebel giants writhing in the 
Volcanic fires of ^Etna, are but faint types of his doom." 



NOTES. 75 



NOTE XVII. PART THIRD, VS. XI. 

a. In giving ireedom to the Slave we assure freedom 
to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what 
we preserve. — Second Ami I Message of Abraham Lincoln* 

b. The close of the late Rebellion was the "intellect- 
ual disenthralment of four millions of blacks and thirty 
millions of whites. It revolutionized the wicked work 
of ages of misrule. It wrought in less than nine years 
the destruction of the evils of almost as many centuries.'" 

NOTE XVIII. PART THIRD, VRS. XII AND XIII. 

a, The Illustrious American Statesman, but lately 
deceased, William Henry Seward, left on record an 
opinion and prophecy in regard to retaining the use of 
the Bible in the Public Schools. 

It did not appear to him to be consistent policy to tax 
Roman Catholics against their will for the support of 
public schools in which the Protestant religion is taught 
and ceremonial practiced, or vice versa, and he predict- 
ed that in fifty years the Bible would not be found in 
the public schools of America. He believed in the love 
of justice of the Protestants. 

The argument of the Rev. S. T. Spear, D.D., in a 
sermon delivered in 1858 or 1859, * s a noble expression 
of this love of justice, and a just tribute to the far-seeing 
wisdom and distinguished courage of Mr. Seward in 
giving utterance to what he deemed to be right at the 
expense of his personal popularity. 

Many will recall the overwhelming defeat Mr. Seward's 
party sustained in his own vicinage because of this 
utterance. The blight upon his strength and popularity 
was, as sweepingly obliterated at the next election, and 
there it remained until the hour of his decease. 

Time, it is believed by many, will yet correct this 
Protestant error, if error it be, and the prophecy of the 
Illustrious American Statesman be fulfilled. He be- 
lieved it to be the true policy of all the State Govern- 
ments to permit each sect of religionists to make the 
Bible a text book for the familv and church, not for the 



76 NOTES. 

public schools. There should be a common field from 
which all sects should be permitted to reap a glorious 
harvest of education without injury to conscience. The 
Protestants then held and now (1880) hold the balance 
of voting power, the Sovereign Power of the American 
Nation. He desired a graceful but complete respect 
paid to the conscience of the Roman Catholics. Should 
time change the balance of voting power the recollection 
of true nobility, generosity and practical Christianity he 
thought would reap a rich reward in conserving peace 
and prosperity for the great Republic, aiding the diffu- 
sion of true religion upon the basis of " The Lord and 
Master's Golden Rule !" 

The author of Libertas, in this connection, quotes from 
an editorial of the JV. Y. Z^ra/(/as follows : " Paragraph 
47 of Pius IX. 's famous encyclical letter is as follows : 

"Public schools, open to all children, for the educa- 
tion of the young should be under the control of the 
Romish Church, and should not be subject to the civil 
power, nor made to conform to the opinions of the age." 

Every loyal Catholic is under obligation to accept 
this as infallible truth, and to do his utmost to give it 
effect." So far as Catholics are concerned, this places 
the question beyond the power of their individualism ; 
a rule of action which only " the power which made can 
unmake - " 

It is, perhaps, proper to add that the Rev. T. DeWitt 
Talmadge, D. D., and other clergymen controverted Dr. 
Spear's argument. The question is subtile. May the 
right be discerned in time to settle the issue by a 
peaceful and just legislation. Is it net truly a ques- 
tion for the National Government? 

b. The Saxon King's reply to the Norman invader 
before the battle of Hastings. 

NOTE XIX. PART THIRD, VS XV. 

" I can have no reluctance to permit anything to be 
communicated that might tend to establish truth, extend 
knowledge, excite virtue and promote happiness among 
mankind — Geo. Washington. 



NOTES. 77 



NOTE XX. PART THIRD, VS. XVII. 

The experience of two wars and two civil administa- 
tions had sufficiently taught Washington that difficulties 
and embarrassments of no ordinary kind are, unhappily, 
at all times, the conditions of public service. It may be 
stated in general terms, that the main difficulties which 
attend the administration of a Government, in peace or 
in war, spring not so much from the necessary and in- 
trinsic conditions of the public service, as from the 
selfishness and the passions of individuals and the mad- 
ness of parties. — Everett's Life of Washington, 231-2, 

NOTE XXI. PART THIRD, VS. XIX, a. VS. XX b. 

a. While it is eminently true that the American recip- 
rocates brotherhood with the Englishman, history is im- 
mutable "The art of flattering rests its laurels not upon 
candidly stating, but upon skillfully displacing facts, an 
occupation not at all congenial to a sensitive conscience. 

b. The Constitution of the United States. 

NOTE XXII. PART THIRD, VS. XXIII. 

The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of 
the family relations, should be one uniting all working 
people, of all nations, tongues and kindreds. Nor 
should this lead to a war upon property or the owners of 
property. Property is the fruit of labor: property is. 
desirable : is a positive good to the world. That some 
should be rich shows that others may become rich, and 
hence is just encouragment to industry and enterprise. 
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of 
another, but let him labor diligently and build one for 
himself; thus by example assuring that his own shall 
be safe Irom violence when built. — Abraham Lincoln. 
(Letter to a Committee of Workingmen. March 21, 1864.) 

NOTE XXIII. PART THIRD, VS. XXIV. 

It has been the chief purpose of the author of Libertas 
to show, what nearly every student of History will doubt- 



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less admit, that the Holy Bible is the chart of humanity ; 
the barometer of the rise and fall of the nations. 

NOTE XXIV. PREFACE. PAGE FIVE. 

a. The Angels, or messengers of God 

b. Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis. To her were 
attributed powers of enchantment which belonged to her 
as one of the Nereides, or Sea N)^mphs. Having, by 
her magical art, charmed her victim within her power 
she changed him into a beast, 

c. Cerberus. The three headed watch dog of the 
Infernal Regions. The author ventures to coin the word 
cerberic, to imply never-failing vigilance. 

Note xxv. part third, vs. xi. 

"The Lost Ten Tribes," and " How and When the 
World will End" by Rev. Joseph Wild, D. D., contains 
an argument to prove that the United States is given to 
the Tribe of Manasseh. If correct, the query is perti- 
nent, is God now gathering that Tribe from all nations 
by immigration ? The clergy of all sects cannot, much 
longer, ignore the issue that this intellectual giant and 
ripe scholar has laid before them. Thousands of sceptics 
are being converted to belief in Holy Scripture, in all 
churches, by his masterly works. If the worthy doctor 
is right, the U. S. have a future grand beyond conception. 

The Monthly Magazine, "Heir of the World," pub- 
lished and edited by Geo. W. Greenwood of Brooklyn, 
is devoted to this subject. 

Note xxvi. part third, vs. v. 

This idea is better stated by the Rev. Henry Ward 
Beecher. In an address before the Faculty and Stu- 
dents of Hamilton College delivered in 1848, he said, 
" When a scholar becomes so much a book-worm that 
he cannot go down and sympathize with common 
humanity, he had better make his will and go to 
Heaven." 



Kind Patrons : 



Brooklyn, N. Y., November 25, 1880. 



What's in a name? Chirography if writ; 
But, when it signifies a man, then, it 
Becomes more precious than a golden mine ; 
The God and Author of the man does shine 
From manhood's face ; for, by his uttered Word 
Each man is made the '* Image of his God ; " 
And kindly hearts are shown in each here given— 
I'll say it, it I gain the chance, in Heaven. — 
The names placed on this page grant me a pass 
To print my little song on Libert as, 

Gratefully, your obedient and humble servant, 

C. Hatch Smith. 
To Messrs.— 



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Elisha Winter, «■ 
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Oliver B. Leich, " 

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Aid. R. Black, 

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Hon. W. S. Livingston, " 

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Gen. James Jourdan, " 

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Hon. A. Ammerman, " 
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J. Brinkerhoff, " 

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yp*The following musical compositions by C. Hatch 
Smith may be obtained at any Music Store : 



VOCAL. 

Spirit of the Island Home, H. Waters, Publisher, 
See an Angel Flying, Flying, " 

The Corporal's Musket, Hall & Son, 

(Dedicated to Gen. Geo. B. McClellan.) 
Ho ! The Deep, 
Manhood's* Dream, C. Bunce, 
Te Deum, " 

This Little Pig went to Market, Ditson&Co. 
Don't Catch a Butterfly, (Comic) 
Happy as a Clam, " 

A Cluster of Pearls, 
Father's Remembrance, 
Sweet ! Sweeter ! Sweetest ! 
Sweet Nellie, 
Comrade ! Look Up ! 
The Golden Rule. 
Songs by Miss Kate K. Fowler, Pupil of C. H. S. 
Entre Nous, Ditson & Co., Publisher. 
Silver and Gold, 

INSTRUMENTAL. 

Lilly of the Valley Waltz (Simple) 
Grand March of Liberty, '* "•-' 

(Dedicated to Hon. Roscoe Conkling.) 



